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Two Shots For Poe Trailer
The trailer(or sneak peek) for a new, adventuresome, and still untitled documentary that chronicles Two Shots For Poe's "World Tour" in the summer of 2006. This video was put together the last night of the tour and was shown to family, friends, and fans who came out to the final gig in Atlanta at Vinyl. Now the real deal, the official, full documentary, is being released September 27, 2007 as internet webisodes at www.twoshots.tv. Visit the site for more information. And get excited...
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The Story:
In the summer of 2006, Jonathan De Olano and Chris Lowell, accompanied by filmmaker Brian McElhaney, set off on a road trip from their homes in Atlanta, GA to Montreal, QB. They brought with them their instruments, some granola, and $200 in cash, which they kept in a cookie jar in the front seat. The rest was to be decided by the events that lay ahead of them.
Of course, neither of them were real musicians. Jonathan occasionally played rhythm guitar for his brother's band in middle school years before, and the closest Chris ever came to a musical venue was his shower.
At the time of the trip, Chris was working (or rather not working) as an actor, and was being hassled to return to Los Angeles to try and book his next job. Jonathan was scheduled to take the MCATS medical exam at the end of the summer, and was feeling the same pressure from his family to spend the rest of his vacation focused on his studies. As far as the two boys were concerned, they had been focused and responsible for quite long enough, and needed to get their hands dirty and breath a little recklessness. And that's exactly what they did...
It should be noted that in times past, the duo never had the best luck in their travels. In the Spring of 2005, on a week long road trip into the North Carolina mountains, both windows in Jonathan's brand new car shattered in the middle of a blizzard, leaving the two hydroplaning down a mountain with cardboard and trashbags taped to their doors. Later that year, flying into Tel Aviv, their prized bottle of whiskey exploded in the overhead compartment, causing their luggage (as well as everyone else's nearby), to smell like the unwashed flatbed of a tailgating party. When they missed their connecting flight in London, they spent the night drinking and dancing in the company of fellow students they met in the airport. When they got robbed in Istanbul, they spent the last week of their trip playing music outside the Blue Mosque for tips.
The less things went as planned, the better. It was a simple formula that suited the two nicely, and was the philosophy fueling this latest escapade: the road trip tour - for how better to stray from the plan when there is simply no plan at all - just a goal: Drive into the unknown with a hundred bucks each and a trunk full of instruments.
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And remember... A cave is just a hole on its side.
